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The American Producer. G ve me the blue of the bending sky O'er the land of the freeman hung, And the bright, full beams of the sun on high While the hymn of the free is sung; Oh, ne'er has the sky o'er a.land like ours Benz dowin with its arch of blue, Or joyfully wept in its crystal showers, Or gemmed the glad earth with dew. Give me the land where the plow's bright share Turns wealth from the virgin soil, Nor melts in the forge where the vulcaus bear A sword for the warrior's spoil; Not the song of the soldier's bloody trade, Nor the trtmpets startling twang, But the vow of peace on the altar laid, Round the hearthstone fondly sang. Oh, bright is the land where the golden grain . Waves over the fertile fields, And the tall, ripe corn on tie spreading plain Its harvest of bounties yields; Where the sounding flail, as it swings in air, Fals fast on the threshing floor. And the autumn sun shows the toilers there With the gold dust covered o'er. Let the broad land wake in its proudest~bloom In the Light of our broader skies! Let the anvil, plow and the busy loom In their power and grandeur rise; Let the workers all, in their well-paid toil, Rejoice with a labor song. And the blessings of God or, the uncovered soi Be sought by the trusting throng. Let the yeoman sing, as he tills the land, And follows the shining plow! Let the toiler sing, as he lifts his hand, Oft wiping his sweating brow I Let the maiden sing! Let the anvil ring! And the radiant truth be toll That the labor of home, in its fruits, shallbring A truer wealth than gold! Then give me the blue of the bending sky, O'er the land of the freeman hung, And the bright, full beams of the sun on high, While the h,,mn of the free is sung; Oh, ne'er has a sk-y o'er a land like ours Bent down with its arch of biue, Or joyfully wept in its crystal showers, Or gemmed the glad earth with dew! -- Wm. Oland Bourne. THE WEDDING MARCH. As ArS'S STORY. "No. 329-A Wedding March." Such waq the number and na:e of a picture in the academy of a certain year which shall, for politi. and personal reasons, be left undet.ignated. The picture was one of my painting; and .1, Reginald Tracy, had been fortunate enough to attain three very important ends by its production. Firstly, it was deemed ex cellent enough by the hanging commit tee to be placed on the line, and it faced you in a very prominpnt manner as you entered room No. V. Secondly, this prominent position secured for my picture a large share of attention which resulted in its fin ing a purcbaser almost as soon as the exhibition doors opened But thirdly, it served the actual purpose for which I painted it, and-which led me to choose my subject. That purpose involved just the least bit of romance ; and although the clevez critics prais,ed the picture and even tinted hat "Mr. Tracy had been sin gulurly fortunate in his treatment of a somewhat unusual and difficult theme,' etc., not one of them so much as guessed that it was a picture with a purpose.. As the sequel may serve tc show, .that purpose sprang from and ended in what I am pleased to call my little romance. It wasa charming day, that on whici! I went to Bockbampton ,o sketch thE water-meadows, and to see my old friend Dr. James Brooke-Jim, I generally called him-who had settled as aprac titioner in that town. .The whole place was steeped in sunlight ; and the deer shadows cast by the old houses in the - narrow streets by the watersida re * theinipress of- his genius to dy. 2l old church of E.ckrhpnpton is a fine - of Norman architecture. -Rising arc: tects'declare that there, are no pam Pillars of that style, or better preserv arches, with their queer faces squeez into the corner thereof, and whi seem to impress the R6ekhamnptonj veniles on Sundays quite as much as t service. Passing through the churc ard,I found myself atlastat the churc With little hope of finding the do open 1 lifted the latch, when at once -yielded to my touch. As I passed with the green baize doors witin the porc [ beard the sound of tlhe organ; stealing quietly into the grateful shac . and coolness of the church, I ensconce myself in the biggest pew I coul find and listened. How soothing ws the effect of the music and surrounm ing on that glorious day!i I could n< see the player, who was conceale by the curtains in front of the orgs loft, but intuitively I guessed it was lady who played. I imagined that oni a woman's delicate touch could hav made that "Kyrie" speak in thes tones; and there was more gentlenes than power in the "Stabat Mater" int -which tne player glided. Then I[ re ..member the "Wedding March" su< ceeded; and a. aer half an hour's privat hearing of the masters I quietly slippe out of the church, once again into th glad sunlight that played around th gravestones and made the world s fair to see. After lunching at my hotel, the Red Lion, I went to see Dr. Jim. It ap peared that the fair player of the chared was a Miss Spalding, and the onl daughter of a well-to-do and retirec merchant who had settled at Rock .hampton some eightden months before and Jim, I found, had been paying his addresses to the young lady. Hei father had married for the second time and had thus given Miss Spalding a stepmother. The old gentleman, as Jim calied him, was an ea'sy-going man, kind-hearted in every way, generous to a fault, and looked kindly enough on Pr. Jim's suit. But as to Mrs. Spald i g, Jim pronounced a decide'ily u.n favorable opinion. She was an am bitious, and, as he expressed it, schenm ing woman, who thought -that Nelly should look somewhat higher than Dr. Brooke, of Rockhanpton-and that she should at least marry money-with which latter commodity Jim was, of course, as a young doctor of course, by no means overburdened. Without actually diseouraging Jim's attentions, Mrs. Spalding made things decidedly unpleasant for the lovers, Mr. Spald ing, good, easy man, was completely under the dominion of his wife. Hence, Jim confessed, he was in a somewhat - unsiettled state of mind. *" You see, Regy," said Jim, "Nelly wilt not disobey her parents in any wr.y. That she cares for me she has e,>nfessed to me more than once. But when I press her to consent to be mar ried at once, and to make me happy, she won't hear of it." "My dear Jim," I responded, in my new-found capacity of guide, counselor and fiend, "she is not the first girl1 who has had' to struggle between love and duty; or at least what she conceives to be herduty." "She is so thoroughly conscientiou, replied Jim, "that I fear even to press her to take the step which would make me a happy man for life. When I ask her in my despair whether she will ever choose between her stepm-other's wishes and my love, she implores me not to tempt her; and so," added Jim, "hereI am, miserable as need be." All this interested me exceedingly.3 She was evidently a girl of sterling v wc--th and with a high sense of the duty i she believed she owed to her parents' g %wsher. I thought over Master Jim's ci love affair as I lay in bed that night and v came to the conclusion that the case ej was a difficult one. You cannot always a mold human minds to your own bent h and purpose by simply speaking. Hence a I came to the conclusion that Miss sl Spalding's love for my old friend ought to be tested and tried in some other i7 way. As my experience of human nature iE goes, there seems nothing lixe putting li love, of all human 'emotions, to some li rigid test. But how the test could be a applied to the case in which I had thus h been led to feel a special interest, I a knew not. n 1 confess as I rolled over to sleep s that I did not see my way clear to help g them. Little did I think that the mor- so row was to bring the means and the h man. The man was Josiah Blagden, tl Esq., iron founder, of the firm of Blag- t den, Bilgo & Co., of Birmingham and b elsewhere; the means was-my humble h self. g The day after my arrival at Rock- B hampton Jim proposed that I should si drive with him on his morning round, ti and, added he, "We'll call at Mount i Grove on our way home." Mount n Grove was the residence of Mr. Spald- is ing; and 2 o'clock found us at the gate t( of a very nice villa residence, overlook- js ing the-river, and standing within its own nicely-kept grounds. w We were ushered into the drawing- ci room, where he found assembled certain tI persons whom Joe had not expected to al see. Mr. 'Spalding received me cour- pi teously, and also did Mrs. Spalding. ai Mies Nellie greeted me most cordially, B adding that she was much pleased to c< make the acquaintance of Dr. Brooke's a old friend of whom he so often spoke. tc In addition to the family ecele of three N it was clear there were strangers pres- pJ ent. These latter were Mr. Josiah Blag- s den and his sister. Mr. Blagden did pj not impress me favorably. He was a stout, florid-complexioned man, remark- oi able for the extreme breadth of his Ji white waistcoat and for the profusion of fa jewelry displayed thereon. i "A safe man, my dear sir; a very safe e; man," said Mr. Spalding to me at ai lunch. "Why, I suppose his turn-over " is about half a million a year-the iron ti trade, you know," added the old gentle- tc man by way of explaining that Mr. Blagden was one of the metal kings of p England. S8 "Self-made man, too," said Mr. te Spalding; "began life as a foundry o boy." From what I saw of Mr. Blagden p within the next few weeks, his origin T could have been pretty accurately p guessed from the manner in which he ti t>ullied his sister, a meek, silent little w woman, with a good heart and a kindly oj nature, as I dibcovered later on. c< As we drove home from lunch that S day Jim was strangely depressed. I vi guessed his thoughts pretty accurately, a] for he burst out into a tirade against t1 Mrs. Spalding on our arrival at home. pi "I shouldn't wonder, Regy," said it he, "if that fellow Blagden has been o1 invited down here as a suitor for Nelly. tL He's a friend of Mrs. Spalding's, I pi know, because she herself comes from S the 'Black country.'" ti Jim's state of mind,fromn the moment n< he broached this theory, may be better re imagined than described. For the next tc three weeks I am bound to say that his c< tem,per was well-nigh unenidurable. One it evening at dinner at Mount Grove, I pl felt half afraid he was going' to inflict tr personal chastisement upon Mr. Blad gen, a feat I should have much rejoiced p to have seen skilfully performed, after B the iron master's coarse invectives at against the medical profession, which he had been called forth during some argu- ti ment -concerning doctors' fees. Nelly's at attitude toward im appeared 'to have at undergone no perceptible change. She nt di slto keep Miss Blagdensaid rs Nelly as frequently togetherasgoissibley, he and thua Jim's tete-a-teteswere reduceda ~tto a miserable minimum. 'Worst of all, -j as Ji remarked to me one day, Nelly h ad confessed that her stepmother had 3j on more than one occasion hinted tha t 3d Mr. Blagden's visit and stay were not ,.solely prompted by friendship to her t - parents. Mrs. Spalding was, in other re words, a clever woman, playing a nice t little game of diplomacy, and whiley E. keeping on the most friendly terms with y Jim, was, to my 'mind, furthering her it own aims and ideas of a matrimonial y alliance fer Kelly with the elderly iron y, founder. o So things went on at Rockhampton, Le with diplomacy at Mount Grove, and d despair at No. 14 High street, where Dr. d James Brooke announced his willing a ness to relieve the afficted daily fromz I- 0 to 11 A. l., and 6 to'8 P. M. 4I had been sitting cogitating over c matters one evening at the Red Lion a Jim having been called tosa distant' a part of his parish-when an idea, y founded, I believe, on a quotation from *1 Ean old French author, occurred to me. a The-quotation was to the effect, that E " when moral suasion fails from any Scause to change an opinion, it is lawful - to appeal to the most trmval of our emo -tions." Happy idea ! thought I. It a shall see whether or not I can work it 1 i out to the advantage of Dr. James I a Brooke and-shall-d adM4t ?-to .,he t a confusion of Josiah Blagden, Esquire. >My plans were then rapidly matured. Morning, noon and night find zie besy 1 I in the old church. I am hard at work t -on a canvas in which the interior of a the edifice grows under my brush day P by day. There are no sounds of the e "Kyrie" now; nor are the jubilant s 'strains of Mendelssohn heard, as on a r bright sunny day not so far gone by. Kelly does not come to practice her old d favorites, as of yore. Blagden, I know, " hates music; and painters, as he once expressed it--in shocking bad taste are usually "a seedy lot." I remember i IMr. Josiah's white vest and cable chain, st with enough appendages attached there- b1 to to have set up a small jeweler in a r thriving way of business. The aisle and ,is gallery of the church are now complete Ih in my picture. I paint it as I sit in the zu aisle; in the distance you can see the -th altar and chancel; and the vicar, who hi looks in upon me occasionally, says it Jc is as like as can be. He is curious, 0f however, to know the nature of the fig.. ures I have sketched roughly in. There is a group passing down the aisle from the altar rails where the vicar can still Isia be seen at his post; and there is a fig- as ure standing atlone and solitary in a Ith pew, as if facing the advancing party, on The vicar cannot fathom the design. an The church he can understand; but the it meaning of the picture puzzles him. I m< bid him wait patiently for the solution the of the mystery. ,is When my study of the church was p14 completed I went home to the Bed Iwi Lion, and there I painted in my figures. a: There was little need for models, for su, my sketch-book was full of studies. ru: Tuirning to my picture, now progressing so] rapidly, I find that there are heads of W. t wo elderly men, and there is a careful Wil sketch of a young man's face and a ma- sqi tronly countenance, and another face wi] which seems not unlike that of Miss sto Blagden. At last my task is completed. emi The picture is a mere " study " but it fp!1 is a careful study wi-hal The old the church they recognize at a glance; the ces tignres -. Well, we shall see. whi Tae sicar has been busily spreading tera a report that I have been painting pic-j tures of the church and there is a ecuri-I ' osity to see them. I now propose that cme fine day a very few of my Rlock- , ork. The circle is very select, I have Lvited only Mr. and Mrs. Spalding, the reat Josiah, Miss Blagden and Jim. I )ntrive, with a diplomatic cunning for hich I have not before given myself edit, that Nelly Spalding shall be ad titted to a private view. She herself as been all anxiety to see the picture, ad I pretend that by a great favor she iall see it before any one else. Here at last. They troop upstairs ito the large room where a luncheon spread. Mr. Josiah is looking very rge to-day. There is an air of jubi nt triumph about him as he bustles bout Nelly, assisting her in taking off er wraps and saying "nothings" which re anything but "soft," as the great tan expresses them. To me, his air is mply patronizing. Mrs. Spalding is racious as usual, and Mr. Spalding ,ems to regard the near prospect of Lnch with more evident satisfaction ian he does the prospect of an artistic eat. Mr. Blagden suggests we had etter step in to see the picture-lunch as evidently its attractions for "the reat Josiah.' I tell him I wait Dr. rooke, at which announcement he ibsides. Th.n I suggest to Miss Nelly iat, with her mother's permission, she tay have the picture all to herself for a Lomentary peep. Mrs. Spalding, who deep with Miss Blagden in the mys ries of the manufacture of rhubarb ,M, readily consents. Nelly follows me into the room here my picture stands covered with a imson cloth on my easel. I close Le door and unveil it. Nelly glances it for a moment; then growing deadly le sinks half-fainting-not into. my ms, but into those of Dr. James rooke, who has most opportunely )me upon the scene. In speechless itonishment he gazes at me, but he, o, seems as if he was going to repeat elly's procedure as he glances at the :eture. "For heaYen's sake, Regy," ,ys Jim in a hoarse voice, "cover that bture up I" Nelly opened her eyes in a moment -two, which seemed to me like an age. m had employed the interval in a shion not unfamiliar to lovers, I be ,ve. And when she did open her res it was to clasp Jim round the neck, id her words were few but decided : Jim, dear! I can never, never marry at man ! I will do what you wish me . But oh ! they have tried me so I" What is it in my picture that has so ,rturbed the lovers and brought Ne)ly Dalding to her senses? Simply the in nor of the old church again. A ray sunlight streaming through a chink the stained window falls on the sad, de, tearful face of a newly made bride. he bride's face is Nelly's own; and the )mpous bridegroom is Josiah Blagden, te artistic treatment of whose white aistcoat and chain has cost me no end pains. Behind bride and bridegroom me the figures of Mr. and Mrs. palding ; and in the dim distance the car is seen still standing within the tar rails. But the central igure after ie bride herself is the young man, ile, motionless as a statue, who stands a pew, and whose ashy gaze is fixed i the bride. The face of the man in e pew is that of James Brooke. The [ture tells its own story to Nelly palding. It places the possibility of ie future before her eyes as she has 3ver dared to picture it to herself. It fiects in all its naked truth the fate Swhich through hed-idecision she may >mmit herself and Jim. And it tells a story so well that art conquers di omacy in decision, and aids love in its iumph over the gre'at Josiah himself. Footsteps on the stairs. I cover tne cture again. Nelly stands beside Dr. rooke ; her cheek is pale, and there -e tears like dewdrops glistening in er eyes. The iron master looms in .e doorway. He takes in the matter a glance, and frowns darkly at Jim walks quickly up ,to her father an takes his'liaiid. "Father," said shE with a tremulous yet decisive tonE "you know the message you brough me from Mr. B!agden this morning Give him my answer now. Tell ? his that I am going to marry Dr. Broi,ke. Now, it is my opinion that, had th discarded Josiah at that moment hel his tongue, he might have got both Mr and Mrs. Spalding to speak a word foc him with Nelly.- But as it was he de stroyed his cwn case at a blow. "Message from me?-and this is m~ answer?" he said, in an angry voie "Why, I care nowt--nowt," he repeat. ed, bitterly, "about the matter.] guess it was the lass' father and mothei bhat wanted to marry Josiah Blagden'8 noney-perhaps they wanted some oI t for themselves." The rudeness and vulgarity which arked the man came out unmistakabby is he said these words; and taking hi lister's arm in his and casting a look of rindictive scorn at the doctor and my t'lf, he walked out at the door with an ingainly strut which was mean' for dig ity, and we saw the great Josiah no nore Mrs. Spalding was especially cit up >y the parting fling of Josiah, as it was he who had maneuvered the matter hus far. Mr. Spalding, on the other and, burst in a jovial laugh, and taking tis daughter's hand, placed it in that of he doctor. After all had left the studio but Mr. (paiding, the latter asked me to tell im in plain terms how I had brought ii- about-for he had no doubt I was t the bottom of it. I uncovered the icture, which Mr. Spalding-supple, asy-minded gentleman that he was 3rntinized with his double eyeglass, amarking to me that he did not quite nasmtand it all, but that it was won erfully clever,and that Josiah's "weskit as as like as life." In six weeks thereafter I officiated as best man " at Jim's marriage. As e organist peeled forth the jubilant rains of Mendelssohn, after the vicar's mediction had been given, and Nelly, ,diant and beautiful, passed down the le on her husband's arm, I could not 2]p rejoicing at the success of what is >w "No. 329-A Wedding March," ough the faces in the picture as ex bited are slightly disguised, and Mr. siah's vest has been shorn of certain its distinctive peculiarities. A Cow's Cud. The situation, the structure and the :9 of the rumen or paunch point it out1 the first and general receptacle for1 a food, which receives in the mouth ly sufficient mastication to enable the imal to swallow it. When swallowed is then received by the rumnen, and rsel after morsel is taken until this, afirst of the animal's four stomachs, comparatively full. A sense of re-! ition precedes rumination, during I ich act the animal generally prefers recumbent posture. It is not to be ~posed that all food taken is again ninated ; it is only the bulky or id portions that undergo the proce3R. ien the rumon is moderately full it I contract on its contents, and first teeze out the fluid portions, which 1 pass onward into the third or fourth machs, while the solid part will be braced by the osophagus or stomach e, and returned to the mouth. By term "loss of the cud" is meant a sation -of the chewing of the cud, ch occurs as a symptom of most in ral disease in cattle. Z can, without be&imtion, say thatfDr. BuiFa gh Syr:p Las given the best satisiction.J bave sold an immense amount of is (during a+t wi:r WLLACE, IIILTON & CO., ggisr,LocHavenPa.a FOR THE LADILES. Facinated br Opera Sini A correspondent of the Chi Ocean, referring to the fascinati ier singers in their stage make-up susceptible and silly young wom ye for the unpleasant consequences o and result, says: n the "It is a fact, with one ortw tfons, all the best known sing married men with families, and I know one of them who, in - oI not could be called handsome; yet th life, even going ortsidetheranksof sing that gross fellow-Levy-to Cam red-faced, fat and with five are -inundated with love letters, quets and presents. The men who the most common sense and the e principle laugh at these epistles. an stroy them-a good thing for the de -but there are others, less hono ters who do not hesitate to take advan in various ways of these pretty -h ninnies." le The correspondent then cites an ber of instances, among them the. lowing: "The seventeen-year.old daughter Dr. W- , of this city, fell, or i ined she did, wildly in love witha low-voiced baritone in the Mapi company. Under an assumed name wrote him gushing and romantic no and fnally sent her photograph. face was so lovely that it piqued singer's curiosity, but it was in vain pleaded for an opportunity to see Miss W- could only enjoy her pade as long as she maintained her cognito. Fially-the baritone, the name of the photographer, his parlor and ascertained. his spondent's name. Then he wrote. her under her real address, saying had identified her, and she could the choice of having her picture a notes back and giving him $200in or he would tell a reporter of the Pol Gazeffe the story and have the pic published. There is little likelih such a threat would have been earr out,'but the girl was so terribly frigh ened that she sent him all the mon she could scrape together, and the of the sum in jewelry. " A case of basso iufatuation was of a daughter of an ex-senator, s prominent in Washington circles, V. used to spend all her pin money bin ing presents and baskets of fib which she sent Conley. In some teious way her father received a hin of it, and the youg lady was sent-o the Georgia convent, where she was educated for a couple of years by of punishment. Castle, though neither so young nor so charming as he once was, still receives loads of gushing epistles which Mrs. Castle demurely twists into cigar-lighters, and Brignili says: ' I haf teached misself ze Ingliii language with these liddle lettres.' In Chicago your correspondent is told there resides a wealthy and charming young married lady who ente handsomely and is well known in. so ciety, but who distracts her elderly husband by a mania for making the ac quaintance of every new maie singer of note, and entertaining him with the greatest elegance and expense." Sometimes the giddy things are taught needed lessons by sensible singers, as witness this: " Another case with a better en that of a young lady whose father well known on the'stock exchange. 8 was violently smitten with Campaninm and used to send him no end of beauti fully written missives, and every night a bouquet of red roses. The lett especially attracted the attention of th tenor, because they wele. written smoothly flowing Itaian, and. evidently by some one who was more romantrc than fast or wild. There waa little trouble in finding olif the fair~eorne spondent, and Mme?COampanin', who efto'call. [ It is rieedless to say hi~atter's.delight iul delusions were quickly dispelled before the domestic life of 'the silver Stoned tenor and the kindly advice of his good wife." Faishion lRotes. Brocade silks and satins show imn mense floral designs. Open Saxton ein'roideries come in black and white surah, nun's veilin and cashmere. terial designed for dress trimmings ha millinery purposes. Long plaid skirts of velvet will worn with Louis XV. coats and scar draperies of light-hued brocade. "My lady" jackets of dark green cashmere embroidered in gold or silver, and fastened with small buttons to J~ match, are imported. Hungarian scarfs of scarlet, green and Jt gold striped surah are draped over jer- I sey costumes of dark myrtle green, ad miral blue or jet black. o Picturesque hats are the great round a hats of plush, felt or beaver, larger than tin any yet worn, with tapering crowns and sul wreaths of nodding plumes. - pe The new cloaks are extremely long Of and expose gay-colored linings of plush. ag Plush cloaks and velvet cloaks, beaded anc from neck to heel, are among leading styles. The steel beads so popular in em broideries and passementeries last sea son have disappeared; the fancy is for ombre beading in colors seen in the 'i fabric. 'thi Ligh6 silk and wool stuff in bright f contrasting stripes, or in gay millefleur designs, are exhibited, which are tota make very handsome yet durable dresseswh for school girls. Sqjuare, nautical looking collars of Pr Oriental brocade, or plaided surah, with Lan large bow knotted at the throat in true RM sailor fashion, are very popular with stylish young girls. ro Bullion plush, a new fabric for opera cloaks, has gold or silver threads mixed ly with its black or white pile. ' Cloaks eb made of bullion plush are lined with u plain plush of bright color-. O Children's costumes, are, ifpossible, more picturesge and quaint than over. The popular materials, plush and moire, enter largely into their composition, as00 do small figured damasse silks. n -- prin rem A Mysterious Malady, - and A most unpleasant malady affects alor verybody who visits or resides in the pape ity of Bagdad. It is a sore called a heat 'datemark," because after it has healed man sleaves an .indelible mark, about the poum ize and shape of a date. It generally take nakes its appearance about the face, seve asts a year, anid then disappears. The and heek of nearly every man and woman pom n Bagdad shows the inevitable mark, one sometimes it settles upon the nose,and paps ~hen the disnlgurement is great; some- the ~ies on the eyelid, when blindness is the1I he result. Strangers are attacked even iter a brief residence; but fortunately, f they are adults, the sore is more apt A o come on the arm. In every case the class ttack runs its course for one year. No beti reatment, no ointment, nor medicine, jcenti is said, has the slightest effect upon on t . Once the sore appearing, the suf- pass rer knows what to expect, and may as' The: ell resign himself to his fate. It is turn icurable. that I enen Mr. Arthur is thesixth President who ' anoti ent wifeless to the White House. His . boy9 redecessors in this respect were Jeffer-. bie, o, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler res d Buchanan, all but the bachelor 'St tuchanan having been widowers. applt p. Trichinm in Man. For some thirty years subsequent to ;he first description of the capsule by ilton, aad some twenty-five years after he identification of the parasite itself In man, the same were looked upon as nere harmless curiosities, and that, Although Leidy discovered the parasite n the flesh of swine in 1847, still it was aot until 1860 that the connection was stablished between them, appearing, is they had, in two totally different spe Dies (men and swine.) The honor of this important discovery belongs to Dr. Zenker, of Dresden, Germany. The isease was discovered in a servant girl, idmitted as a typhus patient to the City ospital in Dresden. She died, and her flesh was found to be completely infested with trichina. Leuckart's and Dther experiments have shown that a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit is necessary to securely render trichinm inert. Direct heat ap plied to the slides holding specimens of richinous pork, by means of the Schultz beating table, has demonstrated under the microEcope that a temperature of afty degrees centigrade (122 degrees Fahrenheit) is necessary to the certain death of the trichinm. Leisering's ex periments with trichinous pork, made rp into sausage meatand ecoked twenty minutes, gave positive results when fed o one rabbit and negative by another. He sums up his experiment as follows: 1. Trichinm are killed by long con tinued salting of infected meat, and lso by subjecting the same for twenty or-hours to the action of smoke in a heated hinber. , 2. Tey are not killed by means of cold,smoking for a period of three days, a it also appears that twenty minutes ooking freshly prepared sausage meat is suificient to kill them in all cases. The various kinds of cooking, how ver, are quite different in their effects pn trichinous pork. Frying and broil ing are most efficient, roasting coming ext. Boiling coagulates the albumen on the outer surface, - and allows the eat to penetrate less readily; it should be kept up, therefore, for at least two ours for large pieces of meat. Whether boiled, broiled or fried, pork should ilways be thoroughly cooked. Prac 4ically speaking, the cooking, salting tud hot smoking which pork in its va nous forms receives in the United States must be, in the vast majority of %ses, sufficient to kill the trichinve and ,erdent infection of the person con mming the meat. verything like those reported in Germany are unknown iere, and trichiniasis in a fatal form is mdoutedly a rare disease. In the vi Hinity of the great pork packing estab hments near Boston the "spare-ribs, taining the intercostal muscles, are. largely bbught and eaten by the ple near by, and trichiniasis among I has not in a single case been re ported, so far as I have been able to Learn. The cuts being thin and well ooked any trichium in them are quite yertain to be killed. Even when tri bhina are introducedinto the intestinal nals, too, they are sometimes expelled by diarrhea, and the invasion of the Iystem by a small numberdoes no harm. --American Microscotpical Joumna1. Spider Draws Up a Mouse by the Tail. A very curious and interesting spec tacle was so be seen Monday afternoon a the omece of Mr. P. C. Clever's livery liable in this city. Against the wait of the room stands a tolerably tall desk, md under this a small spider, not larger than a common pea, -had constructed an ztensive web reaching to the floor. ALbout~ 11:30 o'clock Monday morn ing in, was observed that the spider bad ensnared a young mouse by passing fllamen'.s of her web around it taiL. When first. seen the mouse &d its hind, feet off the floor, and - ~ ch the floor with its rnning up asu dwn the line,, Onally biting the ,mouse's tail, g it struggle desperately. -Its rts to escape were imavailing, asithe or filaments arolind its -tail were o strong for it to break. In a short ne it was se,en that-'the spider was aly hoisting its victim into the air. y 2 o'clock in the afternoon the use could barely touch the floor th its forefeet; by dark the point of nose was an inch above the floor. - 9 o'clock at night the mouse was a 11 alive, but had made no sign except in the spider descended and bit its 12 1. At this time it was an inch and a " f from the floor.n esterday morning the mouse was I ad and hung three inches from the ~ 'he news of the novel sight soon be- se n circulated, and hundreds of people ~ ited the- stable to witness it. The ... ruse is a small- one, probably less m half-grown, measuring about one a one-half inchelfrom the point of T' nose to the root of its 'tail. How & spider sceeded in ensnaring it is tE Sknown. The mechanical ingenityb:v t'e spider, which enables her to ra- se ody which must weigh forty or fifty O tea as much as herself, has been the yect of a good. deal of comment 2nd 4 culation, and no satisfactory solution^ the difficulty has been found. All e that it is a most remarkable case, one that would be received with at iincredulity if it were not so amply t sted.-Lebanon ( Ky.) Standard. ~ tb -The Cost of Living. se 3e cost of living, says the Chicago H1 bune, has greatly increased during se -past twelve months, and this will ca most heavy on the poor people, thb a Tribne makes up the followingr an re of the increase in the price in the lesale markets of that city: ab Per cent. of I Per cent. of fa' inerease. increase, in c.-.....7 Cheese........ 4 the L.;... 52 I Ego.......... 21 t .....24 1 Putatoes ....... 19 t .....30| Apples .......... 100 at.... 40 Sugar.......... 100 4......68 L Hay ..... ....... 9 - .l.. 6I Lumber.......11 .....28-| Coal..........i5 07..... 46White fish....... 22 S...... 40 I Cornmeat...... 60 er ..2. 15|~ verage jor thirty-four per cent. 1.The Paper Product. ofimte that nearly 2,000,000,-on udofpaper is produced an Ly, one-half of which is used in tha a sixth for writing, and the to inder is coarse paper !or packing spe other purposes. The United States ma: A produces yearly 100,000 tons of on a, averaging seventeen pounds per sio: Efor its population. The English- ofI comes next, with about twelve Da ids per head; the educated German kes s eight pounds, the Frenchman t( pounds, while theItalian,Spaniard ~ Russian take respectively three No ids, one and one-half pounds and the pound annually, the consumption oi leg, r being roughly in proportion to use< lucation and political activity of anii -for Comfort Me with Apples. ~~ - young lady has a Sunday-school of rather bright boys, averaging en seven and nine years. IRe y she requested each pupil to come he following Sunday with some ag of Scripture bearing on love. lads heeded the request, and in recited their verses bearing upon popular topic-such i's '" Love your ies," "Litsfe children, love one ter," etc. The teacher said to the hoseoturncame last, "Well, Rob r'hat is your verse ?" Bising, he inded, "Song of Solomon, ii, 5 ie with flagons, comfort me with A Dangerous HumorIst. A moderate humorist is a genial com panion,but an immoderate one is apt to shock his friends' sense of propriety and notions of reverence. Sydney Smith .was humorous to such an extent that when it was proposed to make him a bishop, the idea so shocked the cabinet that the witty clergyman was only pro moted to the office of a canon. That Smith's conduct gave good reason for the refusal may be seen from the follow ing anecdote, given by Lord Houghton in his "Monographs Personal and So cial," for the authenticity of which, he says, he will not vouch, but which seems to him good enough to be true. On being settled at his small living in Yorkshire, Sydney willingly assisted his neighbors in their clerical duties. On an occasion of this kind he dined with the incumbent on the preceding Satur day, and the-evening passed in great hilarity, the squire, by name Kershaw, being conspicuous for his loud enjoy ment of the stranger's jokes. "I am'very glad that I have amused you," said Mr. Sydney Smith, at parting, "bnt you must not laugh at my sermon to-morrow." "I should hope Iknow the difference between here and at church," remarked the gentleman, with sharpness. " I am not sure of that," replied the visitor. "I'll bet you a guinea on it," said the squire. "Take you," replied the divine. Next Hay the preacher ascended the st'eps of the pulpit apparently suffer ing from a severe cold, with his hand kerchief to his face, and at once eneezed out the name Ker-shaw several times in various intonations. This ingenious assumption of the readiness with which a man would re cognize his own name in dounds imper ceptible to the ears of others, proved accurate. The poor gentleman burst Lto a guf faw, to the scandal of the congregation; and the minister, after looking at him with stern reproach, proceeded with his discourse. Dr. Olivir Wendell Holmes, always charming, witty and active, feels his seventy-two years only in a slight deaf ness. It is estimated that there resids in London, England, not less than 32,000 thieves. [Albany (N.Y.) Daily Press and Knickerbocker.] Abandoned. We perceive by one of our Massachu setts exchanges that Dr. Lorenzo Waite, of Westfield, an eminent phrsician of Berkshire county, strongly indorses St. Jacobs Oil. With it he cured a case of Sciatica that resisted all regular pro fessional treatment, and that had in fact been abandoned as incurable. I know not what the world may think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but a child playing on the seashore, now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me.-Sir hsaac Netn [La Fayette (Ind.) Sunday Times.l Our city druggists report an immense sale of St. Jacobs Oil, saying the de mand is based upon the popularity of its success. Wherever it has been used, it has proved its value a thousand fold, and receives its best encomiums from those who have tried it. Pliny tells us that Dcedalus invented the saw. The earliest, saw-mill of which we have mention was -built at Madeirain 1420. We Believe hat if every one would use Hop Bitters freely ere would be much less sickness and misery ithe world; and people eae fast finding this ut, whole families keepbag well at a trifling st by its use. We advise all totry it.-V. & . R?ochester, t. Y. In potatoes there are seventy-five arts water to every hundred pounds. RLE.SCUED FRIOM DEATH. Wian J. couighlin, of Somerrille. Mass.. says: In e fall of Is7C I was taken with bleeding of the lunga, liowed by a severe cough. I lost my appetito and sh, and was conrined to my bed. In Is77 I was ad .itted to the hospital. The doctors said I had a hole mylung as big as ahalf-dollar. At onetimne are rt went around that I was dead. I gave up hope, t a friend told me of Da. WI.LIAM HALI:S BAL.si ra ELaUNGS. I got a bottle, when, to my surplise, ommenced to feel better, aud to-day I feel better .n for three years past. I write this hoping every I e afflicted with diseased lungs will take Da. Win,. AM HALL's BALsAM, and be convinced thaI coy IrION cAN BE CUEED. I can positively Say At has 'ne more good than all the other medicines I have C en since my sickness. WARELANTED FOIR 4 YEARS AXD YEVE!. FAILED Bi fcly h.rmle.s also exter!malr 1.Cuts, Briss.I kad c1 t. tiw oareedy isDi ToI3I.S * N'IAN LINDhEN~T. 5o e o :, t-in it will ever be without it; GRAND STEEPLE CHASE. As if there were not sufficient excitement < the usual horse-race, these meetings on rr turf nearly always close with a grand .E. ~epe chase, This kind of race. -dines ' teexcitement of the regular 1,..ce, with ' super-added emnto'danger whc ms to give further zest to the sport. ,rses. and good ones at that. often receive ~ere injur,es, which render them practi-j fly useless for long periods. At least s was the state of affairs until owner breeders of fine stock began to freely ST. JACOBs OIL, the Great German medy for man and beast. This invalu e article to horsemen has so grown into 'or on account of its phenomenal efficacy iseases of domestic animals, especiallyI horse, that it would be difficult indeed discover a horsemen unacquainted with magical potency. The 'Philadelphia V bm; Em - ~ J ~' - \ sic rec y Hour. in a recent issue says: "But of the most important developements ,P crning S-r. JACOBs OIL is the discovery it has properties which are beneficiail ~ he animal as well as to the 'human cies. It has, of iato, been in active de- -. d among livery mn and others for use horses su!Terimg from sprains or abra is. Themjnot prcminentin.staneknown $7 this connesi 'n, i.< that related by Mr. id Walton, a wel- 4:; wna Friend, who s a livery stab!e at 1245 North Twelfth et. Mr. Walton states that he was rding a valuable horse belonging to ijamin McClurg, alio a resident of h Twelfth street. A few weeks aco animal slipped andl badly sprained hiis making him very hime. Mr'. Walton I two bottles o,f &r. JAcons OitL on the al and found withini less t?uan one k, that there was n'o !..M..- any more, the animal was as well as e'~r. by n = = When the Trouble ReOns rs the time to grapple with dyspepsia. To al low such a remorseless foe to health and com fort to take undisputed possession of the stomach, is to surrender needlessly the zest of life, and become a voluntary martyr to un Fpeakable pains and penalties. No malady is more difficult to cope with, none in its chroic form so obstinately resists medication. But tackled at its inception with Hostetter's 8.omach Bitters, dyspepsia speeily vanishes, carrying with it the multifarious symptoms which attend it, and which in their chameleon changes inspire more erroneous beliefs regard ing their cause than those of any other disease. Wind on the stomach, heartburn, water brash, palpitations, pain after eating, a sinking sensa tion at the pit of the stomach between meals; these and many other harassing indicia of the complaint make a speedy exit when the great stomachic is persistently resorted to. It im proves the appetite, strengthens the nerves, counteracts the effects of fatigue and expo sure, and is a reliable antidote to the poison of malaria. Charles Bell, of Stroudsburg, Pa., has succeeded in making a bcat from chemical wood fiber. This is said to be the first of the kind known to have been made. The boat is fourteen feet long, eighteen inches wide, and "rides on the water like a daisy." Lady Beatiferm. Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes with all the cosmet ics of France, or beautifiers of the world, while in poor health, and nothing will give you such good health, strength and beauty as Hop Bit ters. A trial is certain proof. See another column. If a boy gets on the wrong "track' it shows that his father's " switch" has not'had a fair chance. We do not often speak of any proprietary medicine, but from what we have read and heard of Allen's Lung Balsaiii, we shall take the liberty of saying to those who are troubled with a cold, cough, or any throat or lung affee tion, that from the testimony afforded, we have such confidence in this article, that were we afflicted in that way, we would make a trial of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequences of neglecting this timely warning. Now, be fore it is too late, use Allen's Lung Balsam, which will cure the disease. Every druggist in the land sells it. INDIGEsTIoN, DYSPEPSIA, nervou1s prostration and all forms of general debility relieved by taking MEsAN's PEPrONIzED BE=F To-ic, the only preparation of beef containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains blood-making, force-generatmg and life-sustaining properties; is invaluable in all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration; overwork, or acute disease. particularly if resulting from pulmonary comnplaints. Caswell, Hazard & Co., proprietors, New York. irPocket Scale, 25c. Howard Mf'g Co., N. Y. " Rough on Rats." Ask Druggists for it. it clears out rats, mice, roaches, bed-bugs, flies, vermin, insects. 15c. THoUsANDS SPEAE.-VEGErNE is acknowl edged and recommended by physicians and apothecaries to be the best purifier and cleanser uf the blood yet discovered, and thousands speak in its praise who have been restored to health. To make new hair grow use CAnor.IN, a doodorized extract of petroleum. Tids natural petroleum hair renewer, as recently improved, is the only thing that will really produce new hair. It is a delightful dressing. qN L BA AM (Thsengravnsrepresesth~e LmsabIthystated A STANDAR REDY anbconmmlcmixn t approaches so near ase -t that "Ninety-Uve - er cent. aretPermanentdy cured where the diree ao oter ingredients toban theyng nor i S AN EXPECTORANT ff HAS NO EQUAL! IT CONTAiNS NO OPIUM IN ANY FORM! - . N. HARRIS & CO., Proprietors, CINCINNATI, 0. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTSe ' SNlU--2 foooli r Fahr,MtesWdw. tiled. Pcnsions for any wound or disease. Bounty :t due to thousands. Pensioners entitled to In ase of Pension. New laws and decisions. Time nited. Apl at once. . Iclose two stamps for vs, blantis and instructions. E. H. OE ELSTON & CO., i'725. U. 8. CLan! AronNE.s. Washiu;gton, D). C. AaZTEerAN WELT, E DRILLING A: KIN. s. ~E LL ORINGEBAL PEosPEcT. p htw tose, I tstiliastrated, explainedhgyrcm .1ed in 4 Anaiia Ag:Ctti't," Nov. No.,18,pae4. 1 ir It. P.rtable-, low priced. 1wr-ed by man. horse or steam er. Ne.ded by farmers in, everr county. oood basinesa for p :c WilE::av.t:rCo., 29 2::o Stroet, Neow7sk:, ti. . A. aCSimiles of Ii. Ss Treasury' usur', Notes, and nine at Ntational Bank Bills. 18 til. t' varlius deninations. As a rare andI ini uta:e'us miars of detecting .counterfeit m nexy --invamuab,le, Pric'e. $:2 a p3aga; L.. A. VYH EW & (1.. NewYork City. P. O. Box 121. ie AROMATIC MItK OSA P:eas:mit, speedy cure for PI LES. One pack-. age-four doses-will a curein ever-ycase. Price dollar. sold by druggists or sent by mail. Ad. as DR. L. H. HARRIS, Pittsburgh, Pa. cntr-aPslee e, air suieTtu knOCw. Cr. ANTED AGENTS for the authentic and comldete Life 0f J.utsI A. GAnm,'EL. fromt childho.sd to alby Cal. Rt. H.Conwell.with int roductio'n by His ellency John D. Long. Gov. of Ma.s. The work is ~. -class,and fnely illustrated. Everybody will want book. Address B. B. RUSfELL. Boson, Mass. VETHIS A never-failing remedy foi Ieadache, Toothache, Earache and all nervous ases. Relieves in 20 minutes. Seunt by mail on ipt of 15 cents in postage stamps, by J. STOWELL, 39 N. Bond st., Baltimore, 3Id. S 'IIPTWANTED to sell stationerv ._ SGoods on commission. Send 1p for terms. PHENITX PUB. CO.. Warren. Pa.A AMONTH-AGENT1SWANTE-vobee; wellng arie es h orld: isamp'I free. , Adrs lyBronson, Derroi t. Mich. i U to $20Oj teceg.i.* niI" AItES Catalogue free. Addrees.Stenrd A UJNS evoiveta~ Catalotue tre.Addr A A WEE. 32a day at home easily made. Costly $ .Do You SPRING SCALE THAT C&N BE INKl'S PATENTPOSTA For Sale by &ll Draeggis,ts, Statioess youannotfnd one nrour towns send nV2 ceutsui atcisaa and receiving no beneut, I was compeed dud n day and alght gasping for breath ; my suterines w.. msyself hver mpounding reota and Ii:s ad rrnt 'i WIN J SCURE for A CA i afterwang one-uniof a box can re:tu the remaeu send me your addrees for a trial peaae FREE OC enenditbim,llon,;cepo tof,epriee gj .k Vegetine .A.CTS .A&.S A ZsOcJC. Vegetine also acts as a most powerful and gratefl tonic: and this feature is most noticeably experienced by persons recovering from acute diseases, y women who have longbeen afflictedwith illspeel to their sex alone. Invariably has it been und to increase the tone or power of the nervous ,by which, in turn, all other rtions of the e a strengthened, and the qrat of the blood improved. To man, woman or cild it will i strength when strength is wanting. It will revit thess tem of the poor over-worked being whose is being frittered away in endless cares arid nets will infuLe the strength of iron and the ro tint of health into tho weak sinews and bloodless countenance of women crushed by hardship* and oi)pressed by the dangr i"hI.b~l will give new life to the p id and emaciated whose appetite is ne, whose movements are feeble and nerveless, andwhose whole system is one of decay and debilitation. VEGETME is a true WX and not a deceptive stimulant; the good that it im parts to-day is not succeeded by injury to-morrow. Vegetine. Rev. 0. T. Walker says: PaovmEE, E. L, 164 Transit Street ff I. STvmcs,5 Esq.: .h i feel bound to express with my signature the high value I place u yourVE(;FT. 3E familyhave u,;ed it for theMlat t%ro years. In Nervous Debifity :t is invaluable: and I recommend it to all who may need an invigorating, renovating tonic. -0. T.-WALKEL, Formerly Pastor of Bowdoiu Square Church, Boston. Vegetine IiS THE BLOOD. 3EL31 . SEVEs: m= HM-, JML = T.337 BM-,MHm.,a.Slsn. .: Dear Sir-1 have been using Vegetine for some time with the greatest satisfaction, and can highly recommend it as a great cleanser and iurifir of th blood. J. L. HA:%AFORD. Pastor of Egleston Square M . ChurCh. Vegetine. PREPARED BY ' H. R STEVENS, Bostoll, Mass. Yegetine is Sold by All Druggis". Ifyou are a rnft If you are ofbusinmwek- ofe v the strain of terstc ntnres io l uties avoid n"ight wo~.to res stimulants and uso tore brainnerveand Hop Bitters. wag use Hop B. if you arn yowjr and suffeftngC any =YIn discretion or dissipa tion; mUL hed or single, old or & = rom poorbealthor lpvgush Gor oa bed of Sc rely on Mp Bitters. whoera you"die an whenever yo1- rom some~ that y our st n bot needs cleansin9 an t of toble cur e for ur restusoopum outntiM b tobacco, or cured If yonus Hop Sitters Ifyonare it It mia n abs ' ofate our bl,cur fo dreds. mt"e" oarlm M S rCTORg M -ea a nd joefsMl &dfdr 465 FULTON4 ST., BROOKL.Y F. 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AddrsHBrtrrC.Brln.iess Want - PREENTIONS OF UNG MEN I T ououl Iean lhfi. rton ade alentine Belros.. ai5l,Ws U. C.,'3 Br?oadw.ce Nework.blly NT ASHAN PTElfo thte-et annd Faste he eing Ptrial oaid iblrtnae.yicoeredce rranted tiona Publithen Ctbo.. ciaelpAshiaPa in the pr opret r . n t onwn berm randed, ort~ Wan